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vol i [ 105 ] no 14 the north-cslrolin magazine or - . â– universal intelligencer from friday august 3 i to f r i d a y september 7 1764 a defer iff ion of the young elephant , lately prefented to his majeiiy by capu sampfon from bengal been feen in england have been harrafted about by fhowmen anj have rarely lived longer than the year of exhibition one of them that was fhewn here fome years ago died in france and was differed at paris and a particular defcription publilhed in the memoirs of the royal academy of all the various parts of its body 7 he bodies of thefe creatures are heavy and grofs and far from being beautiful ; their eyes are like thofe of a hog ; their legs and feet re femble columns ; thofe protuberances like toes being only raifed knobs without joints consequently not flexible : they cannot turn their necks or bend their heads but this de fect is fufiiciently fupplied by the agility of the trunk which reaches to the ground and tho of a vaft fize they yet can take up with it tven a grain of muflard with this member they eat drir.k imell tafte and fight ; their ears are large and hang upon their houlders and whjit is reirvarka'ble there is a little cavity behind them covered with a thin parchment like membrane which if by any accident wounded the animal certainly dies at the corners of the mouth which is proportionably frhall to their bulk grow too large tufhss which in the malt hoot out to an enormous iizc weighing 150 weight and extending up wards to the height of iix or feven feet 3 be tween thefe the trunk is fit aud ; but thefe tufhes rarely exceed a foot in the females i heir food mthe woods where they jrre bred wild is grafs fug r cancc the green hoots of trees or whjtevt r ck'e of the vegetable kind they can find corn and rice thty rc ex ceedingly fond of and when tamed will eat hay oats c like oiher cuttle Â£&;:> &%'!â– â– &< his elephant is the more cu j&tfr_ft^^j nous as travellers chrivr in vc yt i >** their dtfcrpitioiibcf this animal pf^y ps f"me affirming that they have l*tv j no jÂ°ints n l^e'r ore es s > an jÂ«"8f^igj t(iat they iuvtr he down while others ailtrt that they are fo docile as to lie down bend the knee and turn from ont fide to the other at the command of their keepers the elephant indeed fleeps itand ing but he often refts as other quadropeds and may be taught to lie down to take up his bind n the largtft and fineft elephants in the world ire thofe in the ifland in ceylon ; ntxt to them thofe of the continent of india ; and laftiy the elephant of africa the moors who deal in thefe animals throughout the indies have a fixed price for the ordinary fort according to their fize they mcaiurc from h d * r l i 1 the nail of the tore foot to the top of the lljoul der and for every cubit high they give after the rate of ic of cur rroney an jfi nun elephant of the large it fizc meafures about nine cubits or thirteen feet and an half in height and is worth about qcc but if 6f the breed of ceylon lour times that fum this elephant is of a dark brown without hair and is little more than fix feet high i.ot being above eight years old travellers affiini that it is fifty or iixty years before the elephant arrives at his full growth and ftrength and that his age is from two to three hundred whether they may live in this climate to the full age is not certain j thofe of them that have

vol i [ 105 ] no 14 the north-cslrolin magazine or - . â– universal intelligencer from friday august 3 i to f r i d a y september 7 1764 a defer iff ion of the young elephant , lately prefented to his majeiiy by capu sampfon from bengal been feen in england have been harrafted about by fhowmen anj have rarely lived longer than the year of exhibition one of them that was fhewn here fome years ago died in france and was differed at paris and a particular defcription publilhed in the memoirs of the royal academy of all the various parts of its body 7 he bodies of thefe creatures are heavy and grofs and far from being beautiful ; their eyes are like thofe of a hog ; their legs and feet re femble columns ; thofe protuberances like toes being only raifed knobs without joints consequently not flexible : they cannot turn their necks or bend their heads but this de fect is fufiiciently fupplied by the agility of the trunk which reaches to the ground and tho of a vaft fize they yet can take up with it tven a grain of muflard with this member they eat drir.k imell tafte and fight ; their ears are large and hang upon their houlders and whjit is reirvarka'ble there is a little cavity behind them covered with a thin parchment like membrane which if by any accident wounded the animal certainly dies at the corners of the mouth which is proportionably frhall to their bulk grow too large tufhss which in the malt hoot out to an enormous iizc weighing 150 weight and extending up wards to the height of iix or feven feet 3 be tween thefe the trunk is fit aud ; but thefe tufhes rarely exceed a foot in the females i heir food mthe woods where they jrre bred wild is grafs fug r cancc the green hoots of trees or whjtevt r ck'e of the vegetable kind they can find corn and rice thty rc ex ceedingly fond of and when tamed will eat hay oats c like oiher cuttle Â£&;:> &%'!â– â– &< his elephant is the more cu j&tfr_ft^^j nous as travellers chrivr in vc yt i >** their dtfcrpitioiibcf this animal pf^y ps f"me affirming that they have l*tv j no jÂ°ints n l^e'r ore es s > an jÂ«"8f^igj t(iat they iuvtr he down while others ailtrt that they are fo docile as to lie down bend the knee and turn from ont fide to the other at the command of their keepers the elephant indeed fleeps itand ing but he often refts as other quadropeds and may be taught to lie down to take up his bind n the largtft and fineft elephants in the world ire thofe in the ifland in ceylon ; ntxt to them thofe of the continent of india ; and laftiy the elephant of africa the moors who deal in thefe animals throughout the indies have a fixed price for the ordinary fort according to their fize they mcaiurc from h d * r l i 1 the nail of the tore foot to the top of the lljoul der and for every cubit high they give after the rate of ic of cur rroney an jfi nun elephant of the large it fizc meafures about nine cubits or thirteen feet and an half in height and is worth about qcc but if 6f the breed of ceylon lour times that fum this elephant is of a dark brown without hair and is little more than fix feet high i.ot being above eight years old travellers affiini that it is fifty or iixty years before the elephant arrives at his full growth and ftrength and that his age is from two to three hundred whether they may live in this climate to the full age is not certain j thofe of them that have